Art of the Week Notes
Theme: Aesthetics
1st Quarter
Level II
Title
Madonna
Enthroned with
Saints
Artist
Giotto Di
Bondone
Movement
PreRenaissance
Media
Oil
paint
Aesthetic
women had lower
foreheads, children were
“little people”
Magdalene
Penitent
Donatello
High
Renaissance
Oil
paint
Unusual for its time,
showed fatigued figure
Head of a Woman
Leonardo Da
Vinci
High
Renaissance
Notice larger forehead?
Ideal female proportions
Deposition of
Christ
Raphael
High
Renaissance
Pen/
chalk
on
paper
Oil
paint
Last Judgment
Michelangelo
High
Renaissance
Oil
paint
Musculature is overdone
showing strength=
beauty
Judith Slaying
Holofernes
Artemsia
Gentilleschi
Baroque
Oil
paint
Drama=beauty , strength
and bust of Judith shown
Madonna with a
Long Neck
Parmigianino
Mannerist
Oil
paint
The Swing
Fragonard
Rococo
Oil
paint
Stretched parts of the
body, seen as flattering.
People were aware of
this intension
Beauty in frivolity, the
more frills the better.
People’s wealth was seen
in their clothes
Muscular Christ, perfect
male proportions
Other facts
1. Beginnings of Perspective
2. One of the first Humanist Catholics
3. Still used gold and flat back ground from medieval
era
1. Unusual for the Renaissance.
2. Mary Magdalene ”paying for her crimes”
3. Made in the later part of Donatello’s Life
1. Da Vinci kept in depth sketchbooks
2. Obsession with perfect form for his paintings
3. Unknown woman
1. Painted for a family whose mother left her son to
die in a feud
2. Truly Academic Artist
1. Shows the chaos of the last day on earth
2. Huge! Painted in under 3 years
3. Models were present day “sinners” and “saints”
that Michelangelo chose
1. Artist experienced trauma while she was in art
school
2. Career focused on women achieved power over
men
3. Use of chiaroscuro to create dark, dramatic
background
1. All about stretched proportions
2.
1. French Frivolity= success of government in wealth
2. French Royalty was imploding
3. Shows image of husband pushing wife, behind the
fountain is wife’s lover looking up her skirt
Art of the Week Notes
Theme: Aesthetics
1st Quarter
Level II